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Natalia Osipova in ROH Giselle

Photo Credit: Click on Photos for Caption

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Florence, Italy (by Pierre)

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what is it about the subtle fuzziness and color/light distortion of old photographs that perfectly invokes the indistinct, dream-like quality of memory

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Raphael Sanzio - Bacchante and Satyrs. 1515-1516 

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“Let’s disappear, shall we?”

— Vita Sackville-West, in a letter to Virginia Woolf, December 1926 (via dearestvita)

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Photography:  Eyup Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey Photographer: Charles Roffey

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Auguste Rodin, Torse Adele (1884)

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Orazio Gentileschi, The Lute Player (detail), c. 1612–1615. Oil on canvas, 100 × 74 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C

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I imagined myself indifferent to her but I was only angry and resentful. Too late… too late I began to understand myself and her. Never have I met her equal in good sense or sweetness of character. She’s perfection itself. I’ve never loved any but her.

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“‘You’ll get over it…’ It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it’ is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes.”

— Jeanette Winterson (b. 27 August 1959)

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Heart in Hand Hooked Rug Untied States Mid-twentieth century

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Ceremonial weapons of the Majapahit Empire, Java

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Marble portrait of the co-emperor Lucius Verus (161-169 AD), detail.  Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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not gonna lie I really, really enjoyed watching rafa absolutely slaughter djokovic today